Tala Madani (born 1981 in Tehran) is an artist based in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. She is a painter whose recurrent motifs include men, often made vulnerable, which gives the effect of reversing the conventionally objectified female body in painting. [1] Her painting style is loose, incorporating gestural brushstrokes into figurative narrative scenes that often have a bizarre, fetishistic quality to them.[2]The men in her paintings often appear to be ridiculed, and clownish, and the loose brushstrokes and flat pictorial space give an almost cartoon quality to her paintings. [3]
2003
Fairbanks Gallery, Oregon State University
Studio 580, Group Show, Bend
2005
Green Gallery, Yale University
2007
Smoke and Mirrors, Lombard-Freid Projects, New York
Size Matters: XS- Recent Small Scale Paintings, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art
New York City Representation, Lombard Freid Projects